Refrigerator



Sept. 17, 1929. J. STEWART REFRIGERATOR Filed Dec. 19. 1928 ments, and lower portions 18 of reduced size so that both ice water and cold air from the ice chamber may circulate freely around them. 18 denotes holes through the outwardly flanged intermediate portions 18 of the containers to permit cold air from below to circulate freely in the remaining portions of the compartments 7 On one side of the box 1, between its base 1 and the floor 10, a cupboard 19 is provided to afford storage facilities for food.

In the front of the cupboardand usually hinged as at 20 to the lower portion of the box is a door 20, the margins of which are normally held closed against the sidesof the door opening '21 as by a fastener .22. Any conventional type of handles 23 may be attached to the side of the box, and 2a is a valve located substantially on the level of the floor to permit water lying thereon being discharged.

lVhile in the foregoing the preferred embodiment of the invention have been described and shown it is understood that this construction is susceptible to such alterations and-modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as my invention and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

l. :In a refrigerator, the combination of a casin open at its upper end, a removable cover thereon, a floor extending completely across said casing intermediately of its height, substantially parallel partitions in saidcasing extending from said floor to its upper end, an ice chamber formed between said partitions, side storage compartments formed between said partitions and the sides of said casing, saidpartitions having apertures therethrough which extend upwards flOIIl'SllCl floor through which water from melting ice in the ice chamber is adapted to flow into said compartments, and means for releasing ice water from said floor when desired.

2. In a refrigerator, the combination as describedin claim 1, wherein other partitions arranged substantially at right angles to the first named partitions subdivide the compartments, and removable containers in said subdivided compartments having upper portions which fit snugly therein, lower portions' smaller than said subdivided compartments aroundwhich ice water and cold air are adapted to circulate, intermediate flanged-portions joining said upper and lowerportlons having holes therethrough so that cold air which enters said compartments through the partition apertures may pass up into the whole of the compartments.

' 3. In a refrigerator, the combination of a casing open at its upper end, a removable cover thereon, a floor extending completely across said'casing interm'ediately of "its height, substantially parallel partitions in the tops of said apertures, said apertures beingadapted to permit water from melted ice to enter said compartments and keep said compartments cool, and said openings are adapted to permit cold air from the ice chamber toenter said compartments when water from melted ice lies on the floor above the level of the tops of said apertures, means forreleasing water from the floor when desired, and a cupboard formed in'the lower portion of the the top of which is, formed by the underside of said floor so that cold from the ice chamber may influence the temperature in said cupboard through said floor.

In a refrigerator, the combination of a casing open at its upper end and having an intern'iediate floor therein, substantially parallel partitions across said casing fromthe floor to the top, a removable cover on said casing, downturned flanges around said cover adapted to engage the inner margins of said casing top, said cover having openings thcrcthroughat its sides, an ice chamber formed between said partitions, compartments formed between said partitions and said casing sides, lids on said cover openings, means for admitting ice water from said ice chamber into said compartments, means for admitting cold air from said ice chamber into said compartments, a cupboard formed in said casing the roof of which is formed by said floor, one side of the casing having a doorway cut therein, and a door adapted to close said doorway and being of greater width and height than said doorwayso that it will bear 1 nst the sides of the latter when in closed position.

JOHN STEWART. 

